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      <title>The eastward enlargement of the eurozone: social and policy aspects in Portugal, Spain and Italy</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31957</link>
      <description>Title: The eastward enlargement of the eurozone: social and policy aspects in Portugal, Spain and Italy
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Galego, Aurora; Caétano, José; Costa, Sofia; Liiv, Reilika
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This report explores some features of the social dimension of enlargement regarding the Southern EU-Member countries, namely Portugal, Spain and Italy. Economic theory suggests that integration may affect wages, employment and income distribution through changes on trade, FDI and migration flows. By removing all barriers to the free movement of goods and services, capital and labour, Eastward Enlargement will affect the location of economic activities, innovation, and technology. Subsequently, the need for economic readjustments will impose extra difficulties at national, regional and sector levels. These aspects have been analysed in several studies, stressing that the regional and social dimension of enlargement as well as the effects on cohesion, have to be taken into account when conceiving EU policies.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Economic, political, institutional as well as social risks and opportunities of EMU enlargement</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31956</link>
      <description>Title: Economic, political, institutional as well as social risks and opportunities of EMU enlargement
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Berlin Group
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The inclusion on May 1st, 2004 of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) into the European Union (EU), and subsequently into the European Monetary Union (EMU) some years later, will cause deep changes within the political, economic, and social settings of the Union as well as in those of the new member countries. This paper's underlying idea is that the new EU members in Central and Eastern Europe should continue to pursue an economic strategy of real convergence to the economic levels of the old member countries as rapidly as possible by securing sustained growth, e.g. by increasing private savings and by reducing the current account deficit. This report will discuss the implications of a catch-up strategy and have a look at the economic, political, social and institutional consequences for EMU enlargement.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Social and political dimensions of the eurozone enlargement in the case of the Baltic States</title>
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      <description>Title: Social and political dimensions of the eurozone enlargement in the case of the Baltic States
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Paas, Tiiu; Rõõm, Marit; Sikk, Allan; Liiv, Reilika; Schumann, Christopher
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This Regional Input is a supplement to Ezoneplus Working Paper No. 13 on the Social Dimension of the Eastward Enlargement of the Eurozone. Political transition from authoritarian to democratic society has been extensive in all three Baltic States. The Baltic States are often examined together in political studies despite of the fact that there is much more variation among these countries in the political sphere than in the economic and social spheres. The problems stemming from the political sphere might be even more crucial for EU enlargement because of their relative instability and slow working comparing that to the economic and social concerns. Therefore this study emphasises some major political differences between the Baltic States that should be taken into account when analysing EU eastward enlargement processes. The paper aims to analyze social and political dimensions of eurozone enlargement in the Baltic States emphasizing also negative consequences of transition and integration processes and their possible impact on EU accession.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Policy and performance in the Nordic EU countries in the 1990s</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31954</link>
      <description>Title: Policy and performance in the Nordic EU countries in the 1990s
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Kiander, Jaakko
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper reviews the macroeconomic policies and performance of the three Nordic EU countries. The experiences of Denmark, Finland and Sweden from the turbulent economic developments of the 1990s and from adjusting their public sectors to fiscal consolidation are illustrating, not least for the discussion of the future challenges of. The economic crises and structural changes of the 1990s as well as the choices done in monetary and fiscal policies can be viewed as a part of adjustment to integration and globalisation, especially to financial deregulation. In this paper the monetary and fiscal policies of the three Nordic EU countries is compared to the averages of EU15. The economic performance of these countries is assessed in terms of growth and employment. The main conclusions of the paper are: (i) the fixed (but adjustable) exchange rate regimes may be costly in terms of output and employment if they are not fully credible; and (ii) large economic fluctuations create easily equally large changes in fiscal balances, which may exceed the limits of the Stability and Growth Pact.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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